# Assessment of Fixation Strategies for Severe Open Tibia Fractures

> **NCT01494519** · PHASE3 · COMPLETED · sponsor: **Major Extremity Trauma Research Consortium** · enrollment: 442 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Severe Open Fractures of the Tibia (Shin) Bone

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Surgery with an external ring fixator
- **PROCEDURE:** Definitive fixation with a locked IM nail or plate

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT01494519
- **Lead sponsor:** Major Extremity Trauma Research Consortium
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** PHASE3
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2011-07
- **Primary completion:** 2017-09
- **Final completion:** 2018-09
- **Target enrollment:** 442 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2019-02-07

## Collaborators

- [object Object]

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01494519

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT01494519, "Assessment of Fixation Strategies for Severe Open Tibia Fractures". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT01494519. Licensed CC0.

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